Villa Clara is a village located in the

Villaguay Villaguay is a city in the province of Entre Ríos in the Argentine Mesopotamia. It has about 49,000 inhabitants as of thcensus 2010and is the head town of the department of the same name. The city lies near the geographic center of the province ...

Department, in the center of the province of Entre Ríos, Argentina. According to the Argentine census bureau, it had 2,726 residents in 2010. The village was named after

Maurice de Hirsch Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth (german: Moritz Freiherr von Hirsch auf Gereuth; french: Maurice, baron de Hirsch de Gereuth; 9 December 1831 – 21 April 1896), commonly known as Maurice de Hirsch, was a German Jewish financier and phila ...

's wife, Clara Bischoffsheim (1833 – 1899). Hirsch was a

German Jewish The history of the Jews in Germany goes back at least to the year 321, and continued through the Early Middle Ages (5th to 10th centuries CE) and High Middle Ages (''circa'' 1000–1299 CE) when Jewish immigrants founded the Ashkenazi Jewish ...

philanthropist who sponsored large-scale Jewish emigration to Argentina. Jewish Argentine settlements Populated places in Entre Ríos Province Populated places established in 1902 1902 establishments in Argentina

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